Category: Interview
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Gillian Wearing: ‘I don’t have any typical practice. Every project is different’
The artist talks about the ideas behind her latest film project, A Room With Your Views, which brings together footage from around the world and will be premiered at Brighton Festival
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty: ‘What is more essential than how one faces the day?’
The multimedia artist talks about constructing the self through the language of clothing
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Charles Richardson – interview: ‘There must be some sort of desire in me to hold onto something’
The artist talks about his show at Exeter Phoenix, collaborating with local artists, the importance of music in his work, and whether the physical informs the virtual, or the other way around
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Jules de Balincourt: ‘I can’t be painting bouquets of flowers and pretend that everything is wonderful. That doesn’t interest me’
The painter’s uncanny worlds reflect the post-9/11 zeitgeist with a beguiling charm. The world is a fragile, unsettling place, he says, and it’s difficult not to respond to that
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Bosco Sodi: ‘I like the freedom of letting the mind and soul go on a journey with the work’
Bosco Sodi talks about the two processes in his work: the one where he is in control and the one where he lets go and waits for the surprise of the outcome
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Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk: ‘Material dictates the way you relate to the fact you describe’
The Russian immigrant artists talk about the difference between art education in the former Soviet Union and in the United States and the importance of using materials as expressive means in their work
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Steven Claydon: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Steven Claydon’s newly commissioned Infra-idol Assembly is set within the vast, bunker-like, top-floor space of the Moore Street substation, designed by Jefferson Sheard and constructed in the 60s, when it was thought that Sheffield’s industrial star was still on the…
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Beatrice Gibson: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
London-based artist Beatrice Gibson’s film F for Fibonacci, at Bloc Projects, evokes the chaos of contemporary capitalist economics via a child’s Minecraft fantasy, contrasting the simplicity of the child’s-eye view with the grotesque and sometimes surreal aspirations and machinations of…
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Mark Fell: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Mark Fell’s Structural Solutions to the Question of Being is being exhibited at The Link pub on the Park Hill housing estate. Fell, who describes himself as a “Rotherham-based music producer and artist”, brings a wealth of local knowledge to…
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Martin Clark: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Martin Clark, the director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, has created Art Sheffield 2016: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm, entirely around sound and video art.
